Alibaba Gold: Which Investors Stand To Cash In On The Massive Public Offering

Alibaba filed its long-awaited public offering Tuesday, seeking to raise as much as $1 billion (a placeholder total) at a still unknown price. The Chinese Internet giant with $5.6 billion in annual sales should be the largest IPO in history--and a massive payday for investors like Yahoo and Silver Lake. But the biggest winner may be SoftBank, the Japanese company that led a $20 million investment round in 2000.